Pipe-cleaner



(No Model.)

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` PIPE GLEANER. No. 572,724. Padzenteil 1013i),8,1896.4

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NITIID STATES` PATENT ("IIIIICE.

ANDREW r. RUMELY, oF oIIIoAeo, ILLINOIS.

PIPE-C LEAN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 572,724, dated December8, 1896.

l Application filed April 6, 1896. Serial No. 586,298. (No model.)

To all whom, t nung concern.' l

Be it known that I, ANDREW P. RUMELY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois,

. faucet where it is drawn, such pipes being commonly arranged inextended coils within a cooling-chamber, so that the liquor may bedelivered at the faucet cool; and this invention belongs to the specificclass of devices for this general purpose which are adapted to bepermanently located in connection with the pipe system to be cleansedand which are brought into use by operating the valves which control thepassage of the cleansingcurrents.

In the drawings, Figure l is a vertical section of my improved cleaneras at the line l l on Figi 4, the controlling-valve being shown inposition shutting o the water, as when the deviceis out -of use. Fig. 2is a detail section corresponding to the lower part of Fig. l., showingthe valve seated in position to permit the chemical cleansing-current topass to the pipes. Fig. .3 is a similar View showing the valve seated inposition to admit a clearwater rinsing-stream. Fig. 4 is a detailsection at right angles to the sections shown -in the other figuresthrough the lower part of the chamber and valve-seat, the valve beingshown in dotted lines.

A is a receptacle for aA suitable chemical adapted to cut the foulmatter from the pipes and cleansethe same, sal-soda being the In aterialcomm only employed and intended to be represented in the drawings. Thisreceptacle is formed integrally with the valve-body B at the lower endand is closed by a cap C, provided with a water-tight bushing or gasketC at the top. The valve-body Bis formed and bored properly to' receive atapering plug D, having an elbow-handle D', and provided with the usualmeans of securing it on its seat. The plug is cut away at opposite sidesof its tapering body, leaving a symmetrical medial segment D2, as seenin Figs. l, 2, and 3, equal segments being cut off from opposite sidesby parallel planes. As a matter of convenience, for reasons which willhereinafter appear, the segment D2 left standing and constituting theoperative valve portion of the plug extends at an angle of forty-livedegrees to the direction of the handle D'. This is a matter of greatconvenience,but the construction might be otherwise in specialinstances. From the valve-chamber or plug-seat in the body B four portsextend, opening ninety degrees apart in the circumference of the seat,these ports being oblong, as best seen in Fig. 4, so that thecircumferential extent of the openin gis small compared with thecapacity of the port.

In practice the circumferential extent of the seat occupiedby each portshould not be more than about one-twelfth of the entire circumference,and it may be much less,as shown in the drawings. Two` of these ports, aand am, lead up through the bottom of the chamber A, and the other two,b' and Z910, lead, respectively, to the pipe-nipples B and B10. It

will be seen that when the plug stands in the i position shown in Fig. lthe water is shut off entirely, whether it enters through B' or B10, andit is immaterial which way the device is connected, each nipple beingadapted to serve either as the inlet or as the outlet. When, however,the plug is set as shown in Fig. 2,with its segment-web D2 extendingvertically and seating at one edge between the ports af and alo and atthe other between the ports b and b1", the water entering through B',for example, passes by way of the port b and the port a into thechemical-chamber A, which will be filled with water thereby, and passesout from said chamber through the ports am and Z910 to the pipe systemconnected with the nipple B10, said pipe system carrying the chemicalelements necessary to properly cleanse the pipe. When the cleansingprocess has continued for a sufcient length of time, the plug being setas shown in Fig. 3, with its segmentweb D2 extending horizontally andseating at IOO be noticed that in this rinsing action thechemical-chamber is entirely cut off from the rinsing-current of water,and the Water that passes in this rinsing-c urrent is therefore certainto be absolutely free from the chemical and adapted thereby to perfectlyrinse theA1 It will be noticed rthat'the water may 1 be shut on? at fourpositions of the valve, corresponding to the two vertical and the twopipes.

horizontal positions of the valve-handle, and that at the obliquepositions -of the handle, which correspond to the vertical positions ofthe valve-segment D2, water may pass,"two of said oblique `positionspermitting it to pass through the chemical-chamber and theother two.,alternating therewith, permitting it to pass directly as arinsing-current through the ports b and b10. v

The fmode of 4use of the device most ylikely to beadopted and leastlikely to involve mistake is that shown yin the drawings, wherein thevalve-handle,'hanging down crosswise of thefrun of the pipe, kasindicated by the direction of `the two -nipples'B and B10, gives shutoffposition. The hand-le being thrown up to the .position'shown in Fig. 2and opening infront of the lower end-of the chemical-chamber gives theposition affording the chemical current through said chamber, and beingthrown dow-n tothe position shown in Fig. 3 gives the position at whichthe current 'takes the llower path, as indicated bythe lower positionofthe handle, and lpasses `through h and b .for rinsing.

A3 is a transversely-webbedboss or bracket extension, integral with thechamberat the rear thereof, ladapted to secure the device in uprightAposition against the wall.

/I donot limitmyself to producing the portways or water-passages bywhich the water traverses the plug vby cutting away the opposite lsides-of the plug, although this is the simplest method and results in theeasiest remembered order of action in setting theplughandle `for thevarious purposes, and I therefore .claim -it specically; neither do Ilimit myself to making the ports which lead into the .bottom of theVchemical-chamber vertical and the `ports which rlead 'into the wateroonnections horizontal, as shown inthe dra-win gs, although 'that is thepreferred construction because easiest produced in the casting, forwhich reason -I design to claim -it specically.

I claim- 1. -In a pipe-cleaner, a chemical-chamber and a valve-body orplug-seat adjacent -thereto, hav-ing -two pipe connections-and havingtwo pairs of ports, both individuals of one pair leading into thechemical-'chamber and the individuals ot' the other pair lea-din g tothe pipe connections respectively; a valve or plug seated and adapted torotate in said valve-body, having portways and a seatingsurface whichare relatively arranged so that the plug at one position separates thetwo pairs of ports from each other, and at another position separatesthe individuals of each pair from each other, and at the third positioncloses one individual of each pair.-

2. In a pipe-cleaner, a chemical-chamber and a valve-body or plug-seatadjacent thereto, having two pipe connections and having two pairs ofports, both individuals of one pair `leading into 'the chemical-chamberand the individuals of the other pair leading to the pipe connectionsrespectively; and a rotating valve or plug seated in said valve-body andhaving two portways symmetrically situated with respect `to an laxialplane through the plug, and adapted in one positionlof the plug tocommunicate one with an individual of each pair-of ports, fand theotherwith the other individualof each pair, one of` said portways beingadapted at another position'of the plug `to communicate with both'individuals ofthe second pair.

v3. In a pipe-cleaner, the chemical-chamber having the val've-body'orplug-seatfadjacent thereto and rigid therewith, said valve-'body havingfour ports leading vfrom the seat, two of them being parallel andleading into the chemical-chamber, the other 4two being parallel and atright angles to the first two and leading to thewaterconnectionsrespectively; and the lplug seated in said `body having.two portways adaptedto register one with one individual of each pairandthe other with the other-individ ual of each pair of ports, and-to berotated to cause one of said'portways yto register with both individualsof the second pair.

4. In a pipe-cleaner, a chemical-'chamber and a valve-body or plug-seatadj acentthereto and rigid therewith, said plug-seat having twowater-pipe connections aand having ytwo pairs of ports, one pair/of saidports leading into the chemical-chamber, and the indiv-iduals of theother pair leading out ato said water-pipe connections respectively;arotating valve or plug seated in said valve-bodyor plug-seat yand cutaway at opposite sides to make its thickness at such reduced portion notgreater than the 'distance between the'individuals of said .pairs ofports, kandfadapted at will to be seated in position to separate theports vleading to the chemical-chamber `from the ports leading'to thewaterconnectio'ns, or to be seated between the individuals 'of both saidpairs of ports, or to be seated over one port of each pair.

5. In a pipe-cleaner, in 'comb'inationfwith the chemical-chamber 4andthe valve-body or plug-seat at the bottom thereof, Vsaid valvebodyhaving two ports leading from the plugseat into the bottom of thechemical-chamber, and two additional ports `leading llaterallyto*suitable water connections; a rotatable valve IOO IIO

orplug seated in the plug-seat, and cutaway In testimony whereof Ihavehereunto set at opposite sides to make its thickness at the my hand, inthe presence of two witnesses, at reduced portion not greater than thedistance Chicago, Illinois, this 28th day of March, 1896.

between the individuals of the said pairs of ANDREW P. `RUMELY. ports,said Valve having a handle oblique to Witnesses:

the planes at which said plug is cut away: CHAs. S. BURTON,

substantially as set forth. JEAN ELLIOTT.

